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dstrang
09 Aug 2009, 02:58 PM
I'm building a website that contains many businesses' information such as name, address, city, state, zip, website etc...

A friend brought up the question about needing permission to repost the business information. We weren't sure if permission was needed so I did some research and couldn't find anything about it. Does anyone know of any links to legal website stuff about reprinting business information?

dreamst8
10 Aug 2009, 09:45 AM
If that business information is public domain (i.e. can be found in the phone book), you're just fine to post it on your site. As a matter of fact, the companies would probably be more than happy that you did. Free advertising doesn't anger too many people :-)

It can only get tricky when you're talking about reprinting a company's content, or privileged information, or their logo/trademark in some cases.